My November 2020 in OSM

Here’s some of the things I’ve been doing in OpenStreetMap in November 2020. (Yes I know I’m posting this in late January, I’m sorry for being late. Hence some parts of this document will appear out of date)

• Mapping
  • Have you heard the good news about StreetComplete?. Currently about 14% of all my edits are from SC, and rising.
  • The coronavirus year of hell continues, and Europe is deep in a second wave. Germany closed all pubs & restaurants, and I’ve been working from home for weeks now. As I said on twitter StreetComplete gives me a target of going outside for a walk every day.
  • I’ve been adding footpaths in various places from aerial imagery, Galway, Southampton
• Videos
  • For some reason I did a lot of video stuff this month.
  • After a toot on mastodon, I got a Peer Tube account on peertube.openstreetmap.fr: @[email protected]
  • OSM Ireland interviewed my collegue & chair of the OSMF Board, Allan Mustard. I attended and towards the end we talked a little about current OSMF issues video mirrored on PeerTube
    • original video on YouTube, OSMIrl announcement tweet
    • I submitted it to WeeklyOSM № 539
  • I published my first screencast, how to use JOSM’s EasyPresets to create one click tag presets (also on YouTube)
  • I gave another talk about imagery offsets & advanced building mapping for OSM Ireland. The video has not yet been processed & published.
• CWG
  • OSM Promotional Material Programme
    • Posted 2 envelopes of stickers to Germany & USA
    • Posted a 600 conference pack to sticker exchange programme for rC3: Remote Chaos Experience, the replacement for the Chaos Communications Congress
  • Blog posts
    • There’s some new members to the CWG lately, expect more activity.
    • I worked on some new blog posts which could cover mapping historical things in OSM.
  • Talked to someone on the OSMF FOSS Policy Committee about the en.osm.town fediverse/mastodon instance and possible moving that to the OSMF.
• Community Stuff
  • This is the start of an intersting twitter thread about diversity in OSM, which I took part in.
• OSMF Board
  • Preperation for the AGM
    • Started board votes to recommend a Yes vote for the resolutions
    • Posted in several places encouraging people to run for the board
      • RainbOSM telegram group, LGBTQ in Tech Slack, r/openstreetmap Reddit, OpenStreetMap Facebook group, OSM US FB, OSM PH FB
  • Local Chapters
    • Reviewed the amended consitution for MapUganda, looks good.
    • I attended the online signing ceremony for the Local Chapters Congress where some signatures were signed
    • India
      • There was some query & discussion about what sort of legal body is needed here. All very preliminary.
    • LCCWG
      • A member asked about using Loomio for this WG and how the board could help make that happen. We’ll have to look into that.
  • The Reddit OSMF Board AMA (Ask Me Anything) was very successful. 435 comments. There was a lot of interest, and we all spent a long time answering questions.
  • Brexit
    • The UK government gave several webinars to help organisations prepare for Brexit. I attended the ones on Data Proection & Copyright which are relevant for OSMF. Nothing terrible surprising
  • I answers a handful of random emails to [email protected]
  • We had asked the DWG about the Software Dispute Panel, and we’ll take this to next stage.
  • Voted on a few applications for Active Contributor Membership.
  • Further discussion on

Previously: October 2020, September 2020, August 2020, July 2020, June 2020, May 2020, April 2020, Mar 2020, Feb 2020, Jan 2020